alt Hacker NewsSo you're saying that LLMs let you accrue technical debt faster? I suppose that's like the fact that living on payday loans let you accrue monetary debt faster.
So you're saying that LLMs let you accrue technical debt faster? I suppose that's like the fact that living on payday loans let you accrue monetary debt faster.
Yes.
I think if you're on a team that cares about quality, LLMs can help you write quality code faster.
If you're on a team that's mindful about technical debt, you can have make practical trade-offs for velocity now at the expense of paying off technical debt later.
And if you're on a team that's unable to care about code quality ("I gotta merge this code now!"), then you can write mountains more code than you can understand.